Brian Eno (lyrics, ambient, rock, cassette, albums)

swim · 06-08-2007, 10:21 AM

I can't believe we don't have a thread on Brian Eno. Especially when I know there's lots of people here who like him. I honestly can't do this amazing song-writer much justice. I mean the feelings that Another Green World induces are pretty amazing. I haven't checked out any of his collaberations but I was going to look for some of his stuff with David Byrne and Robert Fripp.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-08-2007, 10:28 AM

The stuff he did with David Byrne is way ahead of it's time.

It probably sounds a bit old hat these days compared to todays stuff but if you remind yourself that the album was recorded in 1981 & if you listen to it in context of stuff that came out from that time it's utterly mind blowing.

jackhammer · 06-08-2007, 10:39 AM

His work with David Bowie especially the Berlin Trilogy is excellent. Strangely I have never got round to getting any of his solo stuff. Time to rectify this I think.

chumb · 06-08-2007, 10:45 AM

I found a cassette of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in my art teacher's room and was pleasantly surprised. I put it on and she looked really confused and asked who it was... I told her Eno and Byrne and she said something to the extent of... "the guy from Talking Heads?" I don't see how you could own that and not treasure it and listen to continually.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-08-2007, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

His work with David Bowie especially the Berlin Trilogy is excellent. Strangely I have never got round to getting any of his solo stuff. Time to rectify this I think.

I'd suggest his first 3 albums Here Come The Warm Jets , Taking Tiger Mountain and Before & After Science. All recorded with various members of Roxy Music (Except Ferry) and it a lot closer the the stuff he did with Bowie than the ambient stuff he became known for doing , although thats just as good.

chumb · 06-08-2007, 12:06 PM

I think some of the truly ambient stuff sounds kind of dated... Another Green World is probably my favorite.

MURDER JUNKIE · 06-08-2007, 05:45 PM

He drinks urine

/nuff said

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-08-2007, 08:39 PM

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

Here's a Peel Session I uploaded from March 1974 with Brian & his band The Winkies (I not sure they were either his touring band or just a name he gave to the people he was working with at the time)

There are 4 tracks here

2 of them are from his first solo album Here Come The Warm Jets ,(Baby's On Fire & The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch) and I think they're much better than the versions on the album , they're that little more heavier & sound much more urgent , much more rockier than you'd ever expect Brian Eno to come up with.

Another track is a song called Totalled , which is an early version of the song I'll Come Running which ended up a couple of years later on his Another Green World album , the lyrics are the same but it's played as a hard rock song rather than the mellow ambient peice it ended up as on that album.

The last track is a cover of Fever.

jackhammer · 06-08-2007, 08:47 PM

Thanks for the link Urban-on it's way now!

boo boo · 06-09-2007, 03:01 AM

Music for Airports, his 80s stuff and the stuff he did with David Byrne was great. His whole ambient period.

But I prefer his 70s rock/prog oriented stuff myself, mainly the stuff he did with Robert Fripp, John Cale, Phil Collins and Phil Manzanera.

Here Come The Warm Jets and Another Green World are my two favs. Followed by Music for Airports, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Before and after Science and No Pussyfooting (his first album with Fripp).

06-08-2007, 10:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
swim dontcareaboutyou Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: North Carolina Posts: 5,188	Brian Eno I can't believe we don't have a thread on Brian Eno. Especially when I know there's lots of people here who like him. I honestly can't do this amazing song-writer much justice. I mean the feelings that Another Green World induces are pretty amazing. I haven't checked out any of his collaberations but I was going to look for some of his stuff with David Byrne and Robert Fripp. __________________ http://nakednaps.bandcamp.com/

06-08-2007, 10:28 AM	#2 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	The stuff he did with David Byrne is way ahead of it's time. It probably sounds a bit old hat these days compared to todays stuff but if you remind yourself that the album was recorded in 1981 & if you listen to it in context of stuff that came out from that time it's utterly mind blowing. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

06-08-2007, 10:39 AM	#3 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	His work with David Bowie especially the Berlin Trilogy is excellent. Strangely I have never got round to getting any of his solo stuff. Time to rectify this I think. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

06-08-2007, 08:39 PM	#8 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service Here's a Peel Session I uploaded from March 1974 with Brian & his band The Winkies (I not sure they were either his touring band or just a name he gave to the people he was working with at the time) There are 4 tracks here 2 of them are from his first solo album Here Come The Warm Jets ,(Baby's On Fire & The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch) and I think they're much better than the versions on the album , they're that little more heavier & sound much more urgent , much more rockier than you'd ever expect Brian Eno to come up with. Another track is a song called Totalled , which is an early version of the song I'll Come Running which ended up a couple of years later on his Another Green World album , the lyrics are the same but it's played as a hard rock song rather than the mellow ambient peice it ended up as on that album. The last track is a cover of Fever. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

06-08-2007, 08:47 PM	#9 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Thanks for the link Urban-on it's way now! __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

06-08-2007, 10:45 AM	#4 (permalink)
chumb awamba Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 133	I found a cassette of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in my art teacher's room and was pleasantly surprised. I put it on and she looked really confused and asked who it was... I told her Eno and Byrne and she said something to the extent of... "the guy from Talking Heads?" I don't see how you could own that and not treasure it and listen to continually.

06-08-2007, 12:06 PM	#6 (permalink)
chumb awamba Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 133	I think some of the truly ambient stuff sounds kind of dated... Another Green World is probably my favorite.

06-08-2007, 05:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
MURDER JUNKIE The Wetter The Better!! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: SH1TTY London Ontario Canada Posts: 2,504	He drinks urine /nuff said